The adage, "No news is good news" seems lacking with family interactions. Even though your daily interactions may seem irrelevant to others don't always assume. Sibling's daily meanderings are always welcome but what's missed is listening in to the trials and tribulations of the "grandchildren", right Mom. Myself, I'm limited to remembering just whom my nieces and nephews are much less to what grades you're in, or if you have graduated what are you now occupied with, or if you are engaged and getting married, or if you are already married, or if you are married and now have kids, or if one or more of your kids attends school, or if one or more of your kids whether they have entered school or not has done something interesting or even not. You can see from what I attempted to say, there is a lot of family news that's not being shared. As we(I) are interested, please take a minute composing for this blog. Myself, I have devised a way to map our family, not including the grandkids kids. Attempting to formulate, I use this word because "remember" doesn't work. I go back to when your parents were born or as in the cases of my latter siblings, approximate. I next guess the year of the adding of an "in law" and add a year or two for a niece or nephew. Attempting to keep the sequences straight, I think this is correct,(girl-girl-boy, girl-girl-boy, I can't count puppies that reside almost 3000 miles away, girl-boy, boy-boy-girl, girl, boy-boy-girl), I now add two years between births. Give me a break for the need to include my own kids. These give me the guide to count either forward or backwards from. Now I need some way to map out a system for my own grandchildren, much less the rest of yours when they finally arrive if they haven't already. Sally, patience is a virtue.